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Old 07-06-2010, 10:05 PM   #1
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Default Bestbuy employee might get fired for epic Youtube video

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Gizmodo story: http://gizmodo.com/5578758/best-buy-...-htc-evo-video

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Old 07-06-2010, 11:07 PM   #2
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The guy who made that was a Best Buy employee, and now they are going to fire them?

Talk about stupid.
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Old 07-07-2010, 01:25 AM   #3
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That was awesome. Why is someone clever enough to make that working at Bestbuy in the first place?
Them and Futureshop have the dumbest employees in the history of employment.
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Old 07-07-2010, 02:39 AM   #4
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lol slow to start, but that was really funny. epic and true
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Old 07-07-2010, 03:11 AM   #5
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Since this thread is more about the video than the kid getting fired, I guess I'll post the rebuttal:
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BTW - Best Buy says that it is firing the guy for slamming a product that they themselves sell. And buddy says he won't fight it.... this has given him the fame to get a job doing what he really wanted to do for his career - computer video animation.
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Old 07-07-2010, 06:20 AM   #7
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That was awesome. Why is someone clever enough to make that working at Bestbuy in the first place?
Them and Futureshop have the dumbest employees in the history of employment.

I worked at FutureShop!
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I worked at FutureShop!
'nuff said
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I was under the impression that dude wasn't fired, as this video did not explicitly mention Best Buy, although videos he previously made did.

Firing this guy could also be an ill conceived move. Given how viral this video went, he's in the first 3 minutes of his 15 minutes of internet fame. If they were to fire him now, what's to stop him from making a new video that utterly trashes best buy while the world is still in the viral wake of his EVO vs iPhone 4 vid? It'd be a potential PR nightmare.
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Firing this guy could also be an ill conceived move. Given how viral this video went, he's in the first 3 minutes of his 15 minutes of internet fame. If they were to fire him now, what's to stop him from making a new video that utterly trashes best buy while the world is still in the viral wake of his EVO vs iPhone 4 vid? It'd be a potential PR nightmare.
No one ever claimed Best Buy was smart.
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Old 07-07-2010, 12:22 PM   #11
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BTW - Best Buy says that it is firing the guy for slamming a product that they themselves sell. And buddy says he won't fight it.... this has given him the fame to get a job doing what he really wanted to do for his career - computer video animation.
He didn't animate them. He created them on xtranormal.com.
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I was going to say it, but I saw something shiny and I forgot all about it.
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Old 07-07-2010, 03:45 PM   #13
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This video + the new episode of Futurama = win on so many levels.
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Both of his videos have about 4,000,000 views combined.

Pretty good.
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/06/bes...iphone-videos/
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Did you work at FutureShop too?!!
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